A social media post by conservative commentator Ann Coulter has triggered controversy online after she suggested banning ...

The story so far: The Supreme Court of India ruled on Tuesday (March 24, 2026) that a Pastor from the Madiga community in Andhra Pradesh could not claim to be a member of a Scheduled Caste as he had ...

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FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

Can someone please explain to me the Hindi Caste system? Is it really perpetuated by that otherwise beautiful religion? In my quest for knowledge that I will probably never use I have purchased some ...

The Caste System: An Inescapable Destiny? Few social systems illustrate this phenomenon more clearly than the caste system, one of history’s most enduring hierarchies. Deeply embedded in Indian ...

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly call ...

Nuns from a group of Dalit Christians, or India’s lowest caste who converted to Christianity, protest in New Delhi. AP Photo/Gurinder Osan The California State University system, America’s largest ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Caste is an ancient system of social ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...